sullen - Story 143469 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old quilt, a patchwork of vibrant fabrics, lay folded on the bed. His aunt needed to sell it to pay for a trip to see her grandchildren. He had helped her make it years ago.

He picked up a corner of the quilt, feeling the familiar texture of the worn cotton. He closed his eyes, remembering the warmth of the sun on his face as they worked together. He missed that.

He dropped the corner of the quilt. He walked to the window, the image of it still burned into his retinas, a burning sensation in his stomach. He felt utterly and completely defeated.

Emotion: sullen

Cluster: Sadness / Despair

PC1 (Valence): -1.51 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.22

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion sullen. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 sullen stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the sullen emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the sullen vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.404
`😞`	0.282
`’`	0.254
`:(`	0.233
`无法`	0.215

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.539
`!`	-0.276
`la`	-0.263
`🤩`	-0.225
`que`	-0.216